Child&#39;s coin bank or safe.



W. A. LUDEKE. CHILD'S COIN BANK 0R SAFE. APPLICATION rmm MAY 1a, 1908.

910,699. Patented Jan. 26,1909.

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WILLIAM A. LUDEKE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

CHILDS COIN BANK OR SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 16, 1908.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

Serial No. 433,747.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LUDEKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Childrens Coin Banks orSafes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy bank or safe and relates moreparticularly to a coin chute provided with means for preventing thecoins from being extracted from the safe through the chute.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a device of thischaracter which is of extremely sim le and inexpensive construc tion,thorough y reliable and eflective in use and composed of comparativelyfew parts so designed as to prevent tampering with the bank.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a coin chute havingpivoted guards so disposed that when the bank is inverted or held inposition for attempting to remove the coins, the said guards willgravitate to a position for preventing the coins from dropping out ofthe chute.

With these objects in view and others as will appear as the descriptionproceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully describedhereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claim appendedhereto.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate one of the embodiments ofthe invention:Figure 1 is a vertical section of a childs bank equippedwith the improved chute. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the bank inverted. Fig. 4 is adetail view of one of the guard members.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate correspondingparts throughout the views.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a bank or safe of any approvedconstruction which has in its top a mouth 1 through which the coins areintroduced and under the mouth is a chute 2 of rectangular horizontalcross section formed with flanges 3 at its top for receiving rivets orother fastenings 4 whereby the chute is secured in position. This chuteis provided with vertical slots 5 in its opposite walls for receivingthe guard members B. In the present instance the chute is equipped withtwo sets of guard members so arranged to prevent smaller coins frombeing extracted through the chute. The corresponding members B of bothsets are mounted to swing on a rod 6 suitably secured to the chute andextending across the slots 5. The lower part 7 of each member B isenlarged and the apertured lug 8 through which the rod 6 passes is soarranged that the said member will hang in the position shown in Fig. 2.The opposed faces 9 of opposite members B are inclined to each other soas to permit a coin dropped through the chute to spread the membersapart for enabling the coin to drop into the bank. The upper extremities10 project above the lugs 8 and are adapted to enter the slots 5 andextend across the chute when the bank is tilted in one direction or theother and inverted to thus constitute keepers for preventing coins frombeing extracted. When the bank is inverted the members B will assume theposition shown in Fig. 3, the members being so weighted as to readilyswing back and forth as the bank is tilted or inverted and are adaptedat all times to prevent coins from being removed through the chute. Whenone member B tilts its short arm will engage the short arm of the othercompanion member and cause the latter to tilt in the same direction sothat both members of each set will extend across the chute and theweighted ends lie on the same side of the latter.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the advantages of the construction and method of o eration willbe readily apparent to those ski led in the art to which the inventionappertains and while I have described the principles of operation of theinvention together with the device which I now consider to be the bestembodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shownis merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when de siredas are within the scope of the claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A coin bank comprising a casing having acoin opening in its top, a rectangular chute consisting of a tubularstructure having 0ppositely-disposed flanges at its upper end, saidflanges being disposed against the inner surface of the casing top at oposite sides of the coin opening, fastenings or securing the flanges tothe said casing, the opposite walls moved when the bank is inverted,said of the chutes having slots extending upi guards having weightedarms normally diswardly from the lower end of the chute, bearposed belowthe chute and between which ings arranged on the opposite sides of thethe coins drop into the bank. 5 chute, horizontal rods at opposite sidesof In testimony whereof I afifix my signature is the chute and disposedin the bearings and in presence of two witnesses. extending across thesaid slots, and guard WILLIAM A. LUDEKE. members pivotally mounted onthe rods to swing thereon into and out of the slots of 10 the chute toprevent coins from being re- Witnesses:

CHARLES H. JUNO, DAVID GILLESPIE.

